Fatal shooting of 2 Israeli Embassy staff members in DC prompts security concerns in South Florida

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MIAMI – The shooting of two unit members astatine the Israeli Embassy successful Washington, D.C. is prompting information concerns present successful South Florida.

Local 10 newsman Hannah Yechivi was extracurricular the Israeli Consulate successful Miami Thursday wherever determination were much constabulary officers contiguous than usual.

The Miami Beach Police Department and the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office person besides accrued the beingness of officers and deputies successful and astir synagogues, temples, Jewish schools, Jewish organizations and Jewish neighborhoods.

“We are shocked and horrified this greeting by the quality of the brutal violent onslaught … We volition not beryllium deterred by terror,” the Consulate General of Israel successful Miami said successful portion successful a statement. “We volition proceed our ngo crossed the globe, with unwavering commitment, to correspond Israel with pride.”

“We basal successful solidarity, successful anger, and successful mourning with Washington’s Jewish and Israeli communities,” the Greater Miami Jewish Federation said successful portion successful a statement. “And we persist. Miami’s Jewish assemblage is among the proudest, astir resilient, astir Zionistic successful the country. We volition not beryllium intimidated by terrorists oregon terrorism. We volition proceed to unrecorded openly and proudly arsenic Jews, to stitchery successful community, and to unabashedly enactment Israel and her close to beryllium arsenic a Jewish, antiauthoritarian state.”

The Greater Miami Jewish Federation confirmed that it is coordinating information efforts with section instrumentality enforcement agencies, but determination are “no known further threats to the South Florida Jewish assemblage astatine this time.”

According to constabulary successful the nation’s capital, two unit members of the Israeli Embassy successful Washington were changeable and killed portion leaving an lawsuit astatine a Jewish museum, and the fishy yelled, “Free, escaped Palestine” aft helium was arrested.

The stunning attack connected Wednesday evening prompted Israeli missions to beef up their information and little their flags to half-staff. It came arsenic Israel has launched different large violative successful the Gaza Strip successful a warfare with Hamas that has heightened tensions crossed the Middle East and internationally and arsenic antisemitic acts are connected the rise.

The 2 radical killed, identified arsenic Yaron Lischinsky, an Israeli citizen, and Sarah Milgrim, an American, were a young mates astir to beryllium engaged, according to Yechiel Leiter, the Israeli ambassador to the U.S.

The mates were leaving an lawsuit astatine the Capital Jewish Museum erstwhile the suspect, who had been seen pacing extracurricular the museum, approached a radical of 4 radical and opened fire, Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela Smith said at a quality conference.

The gunman, identified by constabulary arsenic Elias Rodriguez, 31, of Chicago, past walked into the museum, was detained by lawsuit information and began chanting, “Free, escaped Palestine,” Smith said.